This is a cock up of biblical proportions, can you believe a football club holding a beer festival, during a world cup, when England are playing, and NOT SHOWING THE GAME
Im flabergasted............this takes ineptitude to a new level
Nothing can be done though, it's all kind of ironic I guess, the club does it to make money, yet it doesnt have enough money to show the game which will make the money :(
I should imagine that anyone who went to the Beer Festival last evening had a great time sampling all the brews on offer and not having to put up with that c**p transmitted from Cape Town.
The turnout was very disappointing last night, I was a little bit merry by the end of the night so my addition skills might not have been too good, but I would say there were no more than 30 people there - I just hope I wasn't seeing double!
There are some special offers on this afternoon (presumably they still have loads of beer left due to the poor turnout), so if you bring some empty containers along they will fill them up at a discount price.
davealbon wrote:The turnout was very disappointing last night, I was a little bit merry by the end of the night so my addition skills might not have been too good, but I would say there were no more than 30 people there - I just hope I wasn't seeing double!
There are some special offers on this afternoon (presumably they still have loads of beer left due to the poor turnout), so if you bring some empty containers along they will fill them up at a discount price.
Yes - I would say that was about right, a disappointing turnout.
The Beer Festival is opening a little earlier today - Midday (til 5pm), and will catch the end of the Car Boot as well. Still plenty of nice beers to be had as seen below.
How well was the Festival promoted in the wider non-footballing community? Did the Club enlist the local Northampton branch of CAMRA to promote or was it a case that the powers that be decided that it was simply enough to list on the Official web-site?
I know, from experience, that a well advertised beer festival is generally a success.
Perhaps this aspect ought to be looked at more closely if the Club decide to promote another one in the future.